test-drb September 2000

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by dburrows＠netpath.net

I already did and pasted below is the response I got from the seller. I work daily with these and unless it ends up real cheap I will not even bother with it. I would only be going for it for the odd customer that might be desperate for a replacement. Put another way I have never had a request for one to date. Dan Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:19:17 -0500 From: Phil Slaughter <orchids(a)usit.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel T. Burrows" <dburrows(a)netpath.net> Subject: Re: Ebay Qbus SCSI #448527001 References: <000901c026af$53eb0f60$a652e780@L166> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: dan, it took some research, since i sold the computer with all of the documentation a couple of years ago and just came across a few "spare parts" recently, but here it is. the is a dtc 11-1 scsi board, made by dtc and compatible with the dec manufactured ones. this particular one was used to connect 2 10.5" iomega alpha 10, 10 meg removable drives to the pdp-11. some of the info i found indicated that this controller board might also work with some sasi drives, but i'm not sure about that. hope this helps. if you should want some iomega drives for your system, if you buy this adapter, then they are available at www.weirdstuff.com/html/drives.htm. thanks for your interest, phil "Daniel T. Burrows" wrote: > Please forward the make and model of this. I am interested but I can't > identify it from the picture. > > Thanks > Dan >Can someone please look at the qbus scsi card on ebay now (item 448527001) and >tell me if it will work in a microvax 3400? > >Thanks...if it will work in a microvax 3400, please don't bid me out. > >-Bob >Bob Brown >Saved by grace >Intranet Sysadmin Page: http://info1.harper.cc.il.us/~bbrown

23 years, 7 months

Finds at Computer Parts Barn

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

At 07:42 PM 9/26/00 -0400, you wrote: >Ed Kirby at CPB has lots of Vaxstation 4000's with drives, keyboards, mice >... These are 55mhz machines with 40mb ram, a drive of your choice sizewise >He is asking something like $300.00 for the whole system as described >above. That is a VAX 4000/60 and even on Ebay they rarely go for more than $150. The 4000/90's go for more but they are 72Mhz machines. --Chuck

23 years, 7 months

<help!> Need help with HP Vectra

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> >Having so recently won the battle with a HP pavillion (k62-366 6360), my FYI: if your running an AMD K6-2 faster than 266mhz you need a patch from the MS download site as there is a bug in W95 that it trips up. Allison

23 years, 7 months

Sync-on-Green Monitors (was: Re: Finds at Computer Parts Barn)

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Zane; I have a friend here in Portland who is still in the same business as I was. He specializes in monitors. I saw him pitch a bunch of DEC Fixed Frequency monitors a while back (he had to move) so I know he gets them occasionally. He always has multi syncs. Email me off the list about what you are looking for. Paxton

23 years, 7 months

Our fine educational system (was: Login on VMS)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org> >You're in good company: Keep in mind I had little touch with leadign edge tech back in 70/71 when I made my school choices. I was fixing tube based equippment mostly and an IC was rather crude stuff. >"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their >home." > -- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society > Convention, 1977 In one sense he was right but the desktop and killer apps like spreadsheets and user friendly databases were phase one and new. It took more than that to get the kitchen computer real. The internet or more correctly the ubiqious communications it represents was phase two. > difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS > is that it's all there. > -- Ken Olsen, president of DEC, DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984 > Around the same time I got a Unix the unsystem teeshirt. UNIX in a no symbol (red slashed circle). By time it was getting somewhat worn AT&T made unix a DOD standard and Ultrix was hot soon after. Allison

23 years, 7 months

VT320 connector

by jhfine＠idirect.com

I acquired a couple of VT320 terminals, but I forgot about the DEC offset connector at the rear. On inquiry, I am told that they come in two flavours: (a) Separate DB25 (female or male) with DEC cable offset connection along with a separate cable with the DEC offset at each end (b) A combined DB25 female at one end and the cable with the DEC offset to be plugged into a VT320 at the other end This is a request to find out if anyone has a couple to spare at a reasonable price? If you are still using them, please don't be concerned as I probably won't get everything set up to use the VT320 terminals for about 4 weeks. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine

23 years, 7 months

It runs!

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

It's only called a MicroVAX III when its used to upgrade a I or II in a BA23 or BA123, I think.. something along those lines anyway. Will J _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

23 years, 7 months

pdp 8 information

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

I hacked together some pdp8 documentation i've scanned in, and made it available at: http://www.itlabs.umn.edu/~lemay Not all of the links are working at the moment, but you can at least look at the CESI PDP8 Omnibus board information sheets, and PDP 8/L manuals, as well as a few sheets from Douglas Electronics Inc that show pictures of their line of DEC compatible breadboards. More info to come as I find the time to scan it in. I should someday have the doc of PDP 8/E Pascal as written at the University of Minnesota, plus the RX01 images available. Also Pascal-S doc, and a variety of doc on floating point programming for the 8/e (which was used in developing Pascal at the UofM). Somday I might even scan in the User Manual, and the Small Computer Handbook, 8/L versions... Of course, that will take a lot of free time. -Lawrence LeMay

23 years, 7 months

We saved one!

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

>From the guy who had the free PDP-11 system in the UK, a week or so ago: From: "Andrew Bailey" <engdesk(a)intelfaxdev.co.uk> To: <mrbill(a)mrbill.net> Subject: Thanks for help Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:27:53 +0100 Dear Bill, One Friday afternoon I sent you an email about a free PDP11. Within forty minutes the first interested people were mailing me back. I am happy to report that the machine has now been collected and is going to be put to good use. Many thanks for helping to recycle an impressive (and extremely heavy) computer system. Andrew Bailey Intelfax Developments Ltd. -- Bill Bradford * KD5LQR mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

23 years, 7 months

<help!> Need help with HP Vectra

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> >I'm using W98, but I have the patch (or a speed related patch anyway). >Lesson one for me was "carefully" make note of ALL the stinkin patches, Yes! Also check out 98lite on the net. Take a few files from w95, a w98 cdrom(SR2!) and use that to script an install for a really nice fast W98 system. >The KILLER though for a Pavillion at least, is that W98 always thinks its >stuff is the best, so if you redetect some hardware it will "SAY" whatever >it has is the "BEST". So many microseconds after the HP specific driver >gets replaced you lockup and get to pursue manually restoring stuff in safe >mode. That can be turned of and it helps to remove the offending files. Msot of the however they are better from a robustness stand point even if they are slower and less feature laden. >Its actually really stinking just how well this system is running right >now. Everything I toss at it, and its been a loading testing frenzy of >boxes of old games, has worked just fine EXCEPT some of the really old DOS Getting some dos stuff to run is a matter of setting up the properties some to make them happy. I've run Gcadd6.1 (DOS!) under w3.1, W95, W98 and it runs killer under WinNT4 and I was told impossible. Allison

23 years, 7 months

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